Bowling Green State University - Key Yearbook (Bowling Green, OH)

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UYEWKRD BGUN -. . .the beginning of what may turn out to be success for some and hope for many . . ., but only the beginning . . .

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i lon'T mind so much ThaT iT rains in The morning, fe goT To be in The office anyway, JT in The afTernoon I like To ploy Tennis . The black enroIImenT problem here aT BGSU? haven'T had a very Thorough reporT. I know we've been on iT and on expanding a black TaculTy. Some of iT has To This was parT of Presidenl Jerome's commiTmenT on This- availabiliTy of federal funds for loan programs, eTc. eferring To any specific plans, do you have any new phrases lace expanding horizons which is geTTing a IiTTIe worn? iT won'T exacTly run The new deal or new TronTier off ap, buT l Think The phrase l'll use, since iT's now 1970, is Ting for Bowling Green A Decade of DisTincTion. re anyThing in parficular you'd like To accomplish while here aT Bowling Green? Any mark you'd like To make? ing you'd' like To be remembered by? T's see . . . of course, I'd iusT like To shake up a loT of The TradiTional arTifacTs of higher educaTion ThaT we've held onTo pasT Their usefulness. I'd like To help The UniversiTy achieve more dis- TincTion Through planning, flexibiliiy, responsiveness To Things ThaT happen aT The Time They happen. I'd like To see The UniversiTy form smaller, more personal uniTs. I'd like To see The curriculum, boTh graduaTe and undergraduale, quiT Tying The sTudenT up be- cause of deparfmenls and rigid programs. I'd like The sTudenTs To be much, much freer To move from one area To anoTher. I don'T Think we will be growing in numbers of sTudenTs in The nexT few years aT The raTe we've been growing. So l don'T look for The Hollis Moore era To build 20 new buildings, bul I sure would be happy if some of The sTudenTs who walked 'across The sTage aT commencemenT would say ThaT The Teaching was 20 Times beTTer Than when They firsT came here.

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.rv is the time of change . . . seventies are here and now, re than ever, education is needed. must start to bring forth new in regards to higher learning. ard Bound is that new life. A th in learning . . . a rebirth in overing . . . a rebirth in ideas. ard Bound is one of the special ects here at Bowling Green State versity. It is designed to help ents with two specific problems. e have enough money but lack educational background needed admittance into college. Others from poverty areas and are un- to pay for an education on the ge level. In both cases they are ents who are interested ingetting od education in college so they return to their own communities improve them 'from within. may wonder how this is done. egins with a single student and her. In fact, I'll tell my own rience of how it happened to back when I was a sophomore gh school, I had many difficulties y homelife. These difficulties ed me to do rather poorly in ol. One of my counselors in ol told me that he would like to me go to college. Well, at the I had no idea Iwould ever go. d no money, no brains and no e to go to college. He told me all I had to do was attend a ting and if I like what I heard, uld take part. So I went. I heard t Upward Bound and what its s and purposes were. I also ed how it helped blacks and r socially deprived students get college. ally seemed to me like this was big chance to make something yself. So I signed up. Not yone who signed up got to go, use they took certain things like ly income, number of persons mily and other confidential data consideration. r all the facts were analyzed, I the one who was chosen. were to go to the campus of S.U. to study subjects that we t have in our junior and senior at high school. I studied algebra English and one other elective. courses were set up on a high ol level, but the classes were ler so each student could get a more individual instruction. , in the fall I started my junior f.-reigns Upward Bound gave underprivileged students year, and Upward Bound really made a change in my grades. I was better prepared for the work I had to do as a junior. I went back again in the summer of 1969 to prepare for my senior year. When fall came, I entered my last year of high school, confident and ready to go on after I graduated. A rebirth is happening to me. I feel as though I have been born again and now have the chance to do some of the things I've wanted to do. Richard Mitchell Bridge Student The above is the experience, in his own words, of one participant in the Upward Bound program. He is now a member of the Bridge, a pro- gram for newly graduated high school seniors getting ready to enter as freshmen in the fall. Upward Bound is a program de- signed to help underprivileged youths at the poverty level. They are chosen according to standards set up by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, dealing with the income level of the family. chance to see what college life is really like. ,sl ,. gf' i WV, 51 Si'